John Gray: Grading wedding gifts

So there you are, sitting together on the humongous bed in the honeymoon suite on the night of your wedding, opening gifts. You tear through the money envelopes lickity split, but the boxed gifts take some time to unwrap.

Multiple wedding gifts needless

DEAR MISS MANNERS: How many wedding gifts do you give?

One wedding gift will suffice

Dear Miss Manners: How many wedding gifts do you give? One for the engagement, one for each shower and one for the wedding. Is this correct? Gentle Reader: The answer Miss Manners will give you is not what you would hear from most engaged couples or those who aid and abet them.

Miss Manners: Multiple gifts not marriage requirement - Mon, 23 Jan 2012 PST

DEAR MISS MANNERS: How many wedding gifts do you give?

William And Kate's Wedding Gifts: Strangest Presents From The Commonwealth

After tying the knot in last year's biggest wedding , Prince William and Kate Middleton toured the Commonwealth nations , visiting landmarks and locals in Australia, New Zealand and Canada -- and getting showered with wedding gifts along the way.